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Britain's
First Black CEO of a FTSE 100 Company |
 Financial
company, Prudential plc today announced that
Tidjane Thiam, its Chief Financial Officer,
will become Group Chief Executive with effect
from 1st October 2009. Thiam becomes the first
black CEO of a FTSE 100 Company in the UK.
A French national, Tidjane began his professional
career with McKinsey & Company, working
in both Paris and London, from 1986 to 1994,
serving insurance companies and banks. 
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| UK
Lifestyle Franchise Showcase: 25 March 2009 |
 ABi
will host the first UK Lifestyle Franchise
Showcase on 25th March 2009 at the Chiswick
Moran Hotel from 3pm - 8pm. The boutique style
event will focus on showcasing low cost franchising
as an accessible and viable option for individuals
who want to start and manage their own business.
The UK Franchise market sector was valued
at £10.8 billion by NatWest Bank in
2007.
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| Growing
numbers of overseas students continue to strengthen
London |
 The
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has today
praised London’s universities for defying
the current economic downturn and increasing
the number of international students studying
in London by nearly 3,000. In 2007/8, 93,000
overseas students, from over 200 countries,
chose the excellence that London’ s higher
education sector offers.
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| East
meets West for final of the Global Enterprise
Challenge
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 Thirty
young people from Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan and Uzbekistan
met in London from 9 - 11 March, 2009 to take
part in the final of an international enterprise
challenge to mark the first-ever Global Entrepreneurship
Week last November. The initiative, for 17
to 21-year-olds, was a partnership between
the British Council and the UK’s Make
Your Mark enterprise campaign.
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| Britain's
biggest immigration removal centre opens |
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith opened a new immigration
removal centre near Gatwick today. The new
426-bed detention centre will help ensure
the UK Border Agency can continue to remove
record numbers of foreign lawbreakers from
the UK. Last year over 66,000 people were
removed from the UK. This includes 5,395 foreign
criminals - made up of 50 killers, 200 sex
offenders and 1,500 drug dealers.
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| Empowering
Muslim community leaders |
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 Cohesion
Minister Sadiq Khan today announced details
of 32 projects across the country which
will share in money from the Preventing
Violent Extremism Community Leadership Fund
(CLF). The £5.1m Fund aims to support
Muslim communities to tackle violent extremism.
The successful projects will help build
community resilience.
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| Obama
has inspired mixed race workers to achieve:
New Research |
 New
research carried out at the University of
Leicester suggests that Barack Obama has become
a ‘glorious mascot’ for biethnic
people seeking to achieve in the workplace.
The US president is seen to give inspiration
to biethnic people who seek to achieve ‘against
the odds.’ Researcher Rana Sinha has
studied if a biethnic background provides
any advantage to a biethnic adult in adapting
to the modern international workplace.
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| Muslim
students preventing Hindus from using QMU's
Multi-faith centre |
 A
row has broken out at Queen Mary University,
London about the use of its multi-faith centre.
The National Hindu Students Forum (UK) claims
that members of the Queen Mary’s Islamic
Society have been physically preventing students
of the Hindu society from offering prayers
at the multi-faith centre.
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| UK
Events Calendar 21/03/2009 - 28/03/2009 |
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